Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c5.s6.14

c5.s6.14

In the Shang oracle bone form, separate symbols for one, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, twenty, hundred, thousand etc. were used. For two to four, the symbol for one was repeated and other numbers were obtained by similar repetitions. For instance, 162 was expressed by the symbols of 100, 60 and 2 placed in the left to right order.